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American college football season
The 1889 college football season was the season of
American football played among colleges and universities in the
United States during the 1889–90 academic year.
The
1889 Princeton Tigers football team , led by team captain
Edgar Allan Poe , compiled a perfect 10–0 record and was recognized as the
national champion by the
Billingsley Report ,
Helms Athletic Foundation ,
Houlgate System ,
National Championship Foundation , and
Parke H. Davis .
[1]
In the South,
Wofford defeated
Furman in the first intercollegiate game played in the state of
South Carolina . The game featured no uniforms, no positions, and the rules were formulated before the game.
[2]
As the popularity of the program increased, new football programs were established in 1889 at
Iowa ,
Syracuse ,
[3] and
Washington .
All eleven players selected by
Caspar Whitney for the
first All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Princeton,
Yale , and
Harvard ). Four of the honorees have been inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame : fullback
Knowlton Ames (Princeton), end
Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale), tackle
Hector Cowan (Princeton), and guard
Pudge Heffelfinger (Yale).
Conference and program changes
Awards and honors
All-Americans
The consensus
All-America team included:
Position
Name
Height
Weight (lbs.)
Class
Hometown
Team
QB
Edgar Allan Poe
Jr.
Baltimore, Maryland
Princeton
HB
Roscoe Channing
141
Sr.
New York, New York
Princeton
HB
James P. Lee
Jr.
New York, New York
Harvard
FB
Snake Ames
5'10"
157
Sr.
Chicago, Illinois
Princeton
E
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Sr.
West Orange, New Jersey
Yale
T
Hector Cowan
Sr.
Hobart, New York
Princeton
G
Pudge Heffelfinger
6'4"
178
So.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Yale
C
William George
Sr.
Princeton
G
John Cranston
Jr.
Sheridan, New York
Harvard
T
Charles O. Gill
Sr.
Walpole, Massachusetts
Yale
E
Arthur Cumnock
Jr.
Danielson, Connecticut
Harvard
Statistical leaders
Conference standings
The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
Independents
1889 Far West college football independents records
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
USC
–
2
–
0
–
0
California
–
0
–
0
–
0
Washington
–
0
–
1
–
0
References